Poverty (relative of course) is almost at a record low. Living standards have been declining since 2003…not since 2010. Fewer working adults were in poverty in 2011/12 than in 2008/09 under Labour. Child poverty is lowest for 25 years. Pensioner poverty at lowest in decades. Funny…none of those are the attention grabbing headline message from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the BBC. The BBC of course … Continue reading
Paul Mason, gone but not forgotten….just why did the BBC employ this man as a senior political editor? What was it about his juvenile politics that so enriched our lives, that enlightened and educated us about the world? Paul Mason, lover of anarchists, Occupy and Communism….and the Internet. Perfect for the BBC with its studied neutrality on all subjects. Just a shame Mason let his personal views … Continue reading
Warning…contains graphic photographs At an International Council meeting in Canterbury, UK, Amnesty International debates and rejects the proposal to recognize as prisoners of conscience people who use or advocate the use of force in opposing oppressive regimes. This means people like Nelson Mandela are not recognized as prisoners of conscience. Amused to hear Nelson Mandela put into the same category as Nick Griffin this morning (08:58) … Continue reading
December 7, 1941: a day that will live in infamy. And completely ignored by the BBC’s US & Canada page. Not even a quick, here’s one we made earlier, news brief on it? Can’t Mardell or Katty tweet something? I realize the BBC journalists and editors are too busy sitting shiva for their secular saint to bother sending someone to notice that the President has made an official “Presidential Proclamation” … Continue reading
Pounce has spotted this: Simon Amstell apologises for Mandela comment on Radio 1 What did he have to apologise for? The comedian suggested there was racial segregation between Radio 1 and sister station BBC Radio 1Xtra. He said: “Mandela would not approve of the situation at the BBC.” His comments came during a link on the show. Amstell said: “What is going on? We’re next to 1Xtra, it’s … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela has died…but don’t worry…he has apparently been reincarnated as Gordon Brown. That was certainly the impression I got when Brown turned up on Victoria Derbyshire’s show (10:20) telling us how grateful he was to Nelson Mandela for helping him to save the world. Incredible how the BBC can unearth the shy and retiring Gordon Brown when it wants to….it seems remarkably reluctant to seek him … Continue reading
Here you go, amongst the wailing and gnashing of teeth at the BBC concerning St Mandela, a new thread to complete.
Interesting listening to the aftermath of Osborne’s budget speech on the BBC…you’d hardly know that Ball’s got a pasting or that Labour had been soundly trounced. You’d have no inkling that Osborne’s budget was based on a solid recovery and gave help to all levels of society….no inkling that under Labour 7.2% of the economy was destroyed. Some key phrases from the OBR report upon which the budget … Continue reading
95 year old man dies after long illness. BBC goes into full on Saint Mandela mode with Mark Mardell calling him “a secular saint”. It’s been amazing watching the sanitisation of Mandela’s life with the very notion that he supported terrorism verboten. As I watch Newsnight he is being compared to Lincoln.
This is going to make Diana’s death look like The Man Who Never Was. There’ll be at least a month of enforced national mourning, including the public stoning of anybody wearing a tie that isn’t black. A one-off tax to pay for the erection of gilded statues of the great man in every London Borough. The BBC will disappear up their own backside. Mandela is lucky he’s going to miss … Continue reading
